Lauryn Hill Quotes

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  Just because a person smiles all the time doesn’t mean their life is perfect, that smile is a symbol of hope & strength.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Life, Smile

  Tags in Strength, Hope

• I’m trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with ‘Miseducation,’ it was very hip-hop – always a singing over beats. I don’t think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Range, Singing

• I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Insecurity, Thought

• To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corruption, Greed

• When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Withdraw, Paid

• The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despite, Faced

• People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone’s face when I really didn’t like them or know them well enough to like.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Uncomfortable, Exposed

• Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Restrictions, Inherent

• I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exploit, Artists

• When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Order, Dramatic

• For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Media, Community

• As musicians and artists, it’s important we have an environment – and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sounds, Environment

• Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Safe, Ironically

• When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction – but, you know, the healthy kind.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Addiction, Back

• I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attracted, I Think

• I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn’t forgive others.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Truth

• We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

  Lauryn Hill

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Available, Plan

• You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.

  Lauryn Hill

• What was freely given to me, I freely give.

  Lauryn Hill

• We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

  Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill (38)

Birth:	25th May, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

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